“The complementary functionality was identified in pretty much the way we were expecting.”

The briefing to analysts in New York on September 5 was the first formal statement by PeopleSoft on how JDE’s products would be merged into its own range of offerings and followed the legal completion of the acquisition a week earlier.

Among the to-be-released products are PeopleSoft Enterprise, built around PeopleSoft’s core applications, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne, built around JDE’s suite and PeopleSoft World, which will encompass JDE’s AS/400 functionality and World portfolio.

Steenstrup says while those moves were expected, what was more interesting was word on upcoming products more tightly integrating the two vendors’ wares.

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